Re: New Santy-Worm attacks *all* PHP-skripts (fwd)

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On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:40:40 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 10:08:00PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > I noticed this at one site.  AFAIK, turning off register_globals 
> > mitigates this a bit.  Unfortunately it was on by default in the 
> > earlier versions of php..
> > Not sure what we should do (if anything).
> 
> It's off in the default php.ini in php-4.2.2-17.7.legacy.

Uhm, wonder why it is on in mine?

rpm -q php
php-4.2.2-17.7.legacy

grep global  /etc/php.ini
; Whether or not to register the EGPCS variables as global variables.  You may
; want to turn this off if you don't want to clutter your scripts' global 
scope
; register_globals to be on;  Using form variables as globals can easily lead
; register_globals = Off
register_globals = On

I guess I could turn it off and see what happens.

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